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The real Ronan
Ronan as he dreams up EpiPens and armour against the wasps for Gansey.
Ronan as he leaves a balm for Adam's chapped arms in his shitbox car.
Ronan as he confesses trying to dream up eye cream for Blue.
Ronan at the end, thinking of dreaming up a Cabeswater that was safer, more protected and beautiful.
Ronan trying to do so much good for the people he loves and cares for. That is the real Ronan. And I'm in love with him.
alternate covers: The Raven Cycle, insp.
literally everything in Adam’s pov makes my heart ache all the time but something that really struck me as the most Relatable Abuse Survivor Feeling were these passages, the first one being right after Adam pressed charges against his father and left the trailer at the end of TRB:
Logically, Adam knew that he had nothing to miss, that he effectively had Stockholm syndrome, identifying with his captors, considering it a kindness when his father didn’t hit him. Objectively, he knew that he was abused. He knew the damage went deeper than any bruise he’d ever worn to school. He could endlessly dissect his reactions, doubt his emotions, wonder if he, too, would grow up to hit his own kid.
But lying in the black of the night, all he could think was, My mother will never speak to me again. I’m homeless.
And then you have this in TRK when Adam accidentally ends up back at the trailer and reflects on the trial results:
What Ronan didn’t realize was that the victory hadn’t been in the punishment. Adam didn’t need his father to go to jail. He had merely needed someone outside the situation to look at it and confirm that yes, a crime had been committed. Adam had not invented it, spurred it, deserved it. It said so on the court paperwork. Robert Parrish, guilty. Adam Parrish, free.
And in the TRK epilogue:
It was perplexing to Adam how he had regarded this as normal for so long. He remembered how the neighbors used to turn away from his bruised face; he used to think, stupidly, that they said nothing because they thought he had somehow deserved it.
Because it doesn’t matter what Adam knows objectively about his abuse, it doesn’t matter what logic and rational thinking are telling him. He knew all the way back in TRB that he was abused and what the effects of that would be, but even in TRK, when he has developed and healed so much and come so far compared to where he was in TRB and TDT, he needed that outside validation. Because abuse survivors are constantly doubting those seemingly objective facts, constantly believing that they’re making it all up in their head and that it’s ridiculous to call it abuse because really, it’s not that bad, and they probably deserved it anyways (in fact that’s something that Robert Parrish uses against Adam in BLLB and probably many times before that - “You think they’re really gonna look at you and see an abused kid? Do you even know what abuse is? That judge will’ve heard enough stories to know a whopper. He’s not gonna blink an eye.”), and that’s why other people’s opinions matter.
They matter to the point that Adam literally did not care whether or not his father went to jail, he only needed some sort of acknowledgement that what he went through was real, that he hadn’t invented it or deserved it. And that part of the reason Adam regarded abuse as something normal for so long and that contributed to him blaming himself for it, was the silence and the inaction and the victim blaming from the people around him who clearly saw that he was being abused. And from the results of the court case he receives the acknowledgement he needed so badly, and in the epilogue, a whole year after he moved out of his abusive household, he’s finally able to fully realize that it was all his father’s fault, that he wasn’t the one who “made it ugly,” he’s able to forgive his past self for being afraid and recognize that he saved himself.
Also tbh he relates very heavily to this text post which like, same.
On the day of the concert, I want to see my tumblr explode with pictures of this event.
photo not mine but i want people on tumblr to see this. i think it would mean a lot if Dallas ARMY organized something to show how sorry we are and that we care
Photo cred to tw:@kwonhyong
Was feeling super emotional so I made this
-Admin Jinnie
If you want to hurt him, you’ll have to go through me and all the other real ARMYs. Just look at this fluff, he didn’t mean any harm
Cody, Frankie, Nancy and their hostage friend Priscilla
In my opinion, found family is so much funnier when it’s more like “these losers hold me hostage and won’t leave me alone”
no you don't understand cabeswater loves them because ronan loves them and they love cabeswater because they love ronan
I'm sorry but nothing will ever be more chaotic and deranged and hilarious than Ronan fucking Lynch answering Henry's "Parrish , how are you not dead?" with "it's your bullshit sings , they created a bullshit force field" all cool and unfazed as if Adam had not just almost been CRUSHED TO DEATH
theres just something a little poetic about ronan lynch, whose motto (according to declan) is "the world against ronan lynch" and adam "army of one" parrish falling in love and trusting one another like they don't trust anyone else and always saying tamquam alter idem to each other and imagining futures where they're together and worrying about the other and their lives getting so tangled up. theyre so invested in each other and to think they both started off lonesome and alone
I know that we are all aware of the many similarities between All for the game and The Raven cycle but I feel the need to point them out anyway. These books are all amazing and life changing and I would not recommend them to ANYONE, but everyone in the world needs to read them. They are just books. No they are NOT, they are an experience. You read them for the first time because why not and then you have to re read them constantly because your whole life revolves around them now. They make no fucking sense whatsoever and yet every word is etched into my soul. Everyone in the books has so much past trauma and gains new trauma during the story. Everyone is SO loved. The found families are top tier, and every member would die for the others no questions asked. There's murder. There's abusive parents. There's iconic cars. There's unhinged characters obsessed with random things ( exy- finding a dead Welsh king ). There's ravens. All the characters are lgbtq because we say so. They're stories about finding your place in the world.
I know his eyes are looking a bit funny BUT I just finished my first EVER digital painting and I’m super proud!! Here’s our boy Adam Parrish!! Also, the watermark/signature is my Instagram please follow that lol
Let’s all pretend his eyes are looking funny because possessed Cabeswater was doing its thang
— Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys. Scholastic Press, 2012. Chapter 39, page 360.
fuck all romance except what that half tree girl and rich welsh history (+ mythology) nerd had
I might be bisexual but at the end of the day I’m a white man’s whore and that white man is called Richard C. Gansey III
trc headcanon
ronan sitting in his room during trb and listening to heather by conan gray thinking about adam and blue
you ever remember how Gansey punched Whelk while he held a gun to his head and how he threw a Molotowcocktail at a car and just go 🦋🦋🦋